Consider me green with envy. They were the comfort of my days and evenings. Then I came home from college and discovered mother had GIVEN THEM AWAY!!!! It took the longest time to forgive her. How wonderful that you were able to hold onto yours.
I lost a lot of the big ones (very early Marvel) I still think my brother stole them from me.
What comics did you read?
My mother did not give mine away, she threw them away!
I put a stop to that, but many of my oldest and most valuable ones were destroyed.
(A couple of years ago, a family that was about to lose the generational home found in the attic on their last day an old comic book: Action #1. They sold it for $1,000,000 and saved the home.)